Facing a nation gripped by fear and bigotry and unwilling to welcome large numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing violence in Europe, the late William Rosenwald, heir to the founder of Sears, Roebuck & Company department store fortune, poured his money and energy into welcoming them, founding the National Refugee Service in 1939.

Today his daughter Nina is a driving force behind another campaign: keeping Muslims fleeing violence in the Middle East from entering the Western world.

Rosenwald is the founder, president, and primary benefactor of the Gatestone Institute, one of the loudest groups agitating against Muslim migration. Her foundation has also generously funded far-right voices that have opposed accepting refugees, including Robert Spencer of the blog Jihad Watch; Frank Gaffney, an anti-Muslim activist known for spreading anti-Muslim conspiracies so far-fetched he was banned from CPAC, the popular conservative convention; and Zuhdi Jasser, a controversial Muslim pundit who argued that President Donald Trump has not done enough in vetting Muslim migrants.

Among the longtime grantees of Rosenwald’s foundations is David Horowitz, the conservative activist who mentored Stephen Miller, the White House aide behind President Donald Trump’s executive order that aimed to temporarily ban refugees and individuals from several majority-Muslim countries.

Rosenwald did not respond to a request for comment.

Gatestone Institute produces a regular drumbeat of articles and punditry. The institute claimed that the Obama administration refugee policy “exposes Americans to the jihad.” Muslim refugees in Western countries are depicted in Gatestone Institute posts as rapists and hosts of “highly infectious diseases” that threaten the health of the German people.

Rosenwald’s organization has gone so far as to call for a ban on all Muslim immigration. In a blog post published last year, Salim Mansur, a distinguished senior fellow with the Gatestone Institute, lashed out at Obama for “coddling Muslims” and praised Trump for promising on the campaign trail to ban Muslim immigrants. “Unless many Muslims can change demonstrably to accept and abide by the social and political norms of American democracy,” Mansur wrote, “they may be excluded from entering the United States as immigrants.” A more recent post from this year, from a writer named Nonie Darwish, argues that “citizens from Islamic nations” should be allowed into the U.S. “only when the war on Islamic terrorism is won and when Islamic governments prove to the world that they have fundamentally changed.”

Many Trump allies have tried to deflect accusations of racism by arguing that the executive order temporarily banning individuals from the seven majority-Muslim countries was a decision made solely because the previous administration targeted these countries for additional security vetting.

But Gatestone Institute has no illusions about the religious motivations behind the ban. “Muslims need to know that the world does indeed have a justifiable and legitimate concern about Islam and actions done in the name of Islam by Muslims,” wrote Nonie Darwish, explaining her support of the executive order, in a piece for the Gatestone Institute.

Journalist Max Blumenthal, writing in The Nation, has called Rosenwald the “Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate.”

Foundation disclosures show that Rosenwald, through a foundation called the Abstraction Fund, has donated more than $10.8 million from 2010 through 2015 to groups identified by the Council on American-Islamic Relations as “Islamophobic.” Through two other foundations controlled by Rosenwald and her family — including one named after her father — she has donated an additional $2.8 million to anti-Muslim activists since 2001.

William Rosenwald in 1946.

Photo: Anthony Calvacca/New York Post Archives via Getty Images

Rosenwald’s family philanthropy goes back to her grandfather, Julius, who founded Sears and went on to spend his wealth to save Jewish families from pogroms in Russia and on schools for African-American children in the South. Her father, William, served as president of the United Jewish Appeal, the Joint Distribution Committee, and founded the National Refugee Service, touring the country to raise funds for resettling Jews fleeing Nazi terror in Europe. William was a committed supporter of Israel. That advocacy dovetails with his daughter’s current work as a supporter of pro-Israel organizations such as AIPAC.

Blumenthal notes that despite her financing of religious bigotry, Rosenwald “maintains a reputation as a Manhattan socialite who travels in some of New York City’s most elite financial and political circles.” She also served as a delegate to the 1996 Democratic National Convention.

Top photo: A group of young Austrian immigrants wave to the Statue of Liberty upon their arrival in America aboard the SS Harding. The 50 Jewish children, who were greeted by their new adoptive families, were fleeing Nazi persecution in their homeland.

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Great zinger at the end of the piece. Its hard enough to comprehend how this kind of thinking gets integrated in society and our power structures, but then to see how its also tied to the party most people think of as advancing justice is frosting. I’m a Bernie/Green Party activist, this kind of truth is important to any meaningful future political revolution.

It sounds like Nina prefers self-preservation and the survival of her Jewish brethren over obsequious thrall to deranged progressive orthodoxy. The desire on the part of the secular left to import massive numbers of religious zealots that sincerely believe the tenets of Islam will forever remain a mystery to me. Religion is a poison to rationality and reason in all of its Hydra headed forms. In the 21st century, Islam is the cult most antithetical to everything that the SJW crowd claims to value most. One can hardly imagine the delusion and cognitive dissonance necessary to simultaneously embrace progressivism and Islamism.

Will you be writing about the 16 Muslim countries that ban entry to Jews from Israel? To help you out they are: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Oman, Malaysia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Sudan.

In the interests of fairness, will you be writing a story on Saudi funding of Islamist sharia-promoting organisations in North America?

Any nation that deploys troops to another country, or drops bombs, or supplies weapons that are used there, has a moral obligation to receive refugees from that conflict.
The US has blood all over its hands from the Middle East and North Africa. Having the largest obligation, it takes the least responsibility.
Nina Rosenwald apparently doesn’t realize the two sides of the equation are connected. Hollywood action movies invariably resolve themselves in glorious, climactic conflict, while the unsightly human cost of that violence is barely (if at all) glimpsed before the credits roll. She’s living in just such a kitsch fantasy of absolutes without responsibilities. How adolescent.

Was it Jewish radicals that hijacked airplanes on 9/11 and killed almost 3,000 Americans? No. Was it Jews that bombed the barracks in Beirut and killed almost 300 US Marines? No. Was it a Jew that took a rifle into a nightclub in Florida and massacred 50 people? No.

Based on a long history of deadly actions against Americans by Muslims and no similar actions by Jews, the entire premise of this article is flawed. Turning away Jewish refugees was a major moral failure by the United States. On the other hand, placing restrictions on Muslim immigrants and refugees is common sense.

You’re largely correct: there have indeed been fewer threats to US interests by Israel and Israel-aligned people than there have by other parties in the Middle East. That’s because the US is extremely generous to Israel, and vicious throughout the rest of the region.
Naively, it may seem sensible to keep those you’ve shat on as far from you as possible, to avoid retaliation. Unfortunately it’s not so simple, because US callousness in turning away the victims of its own horrendous foreign policies only serves to increase resentment; and casting this as being about religion (rather than about oil) will only help lead troubled folk into religious extremism.
The real clincher is that you are NEVER SAFE from terrorism, no matter how many people you exclude from your country, no matter how rigid your security state. There’s simply no way to stop a determined person who’s stupid enough to want to hurt a large number of people.
The FBI claim to have foiled hundreds of terrorist plots in recent years. In fact almost every single one of those plots was dreamed up by the FBI itself, who went looking for malcontents naive enough to let themselves be groomed, radicalized and entrapped. The US has had almost no success at detecting or preventing actual terror attacks. Yet it continues to take actions that seem designed to increase hatred against it. How stupid can you get?

It’s not a very successful “genocide”. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported a population of 12.37 million in 2015, an increase of 270,000 on the 12.1 million it reported in 2014. So I guess it’s not a genocide then.

BTW: the Muslim Palestinians would have had their own state years ago but they don’t want one if it means Israel continues to exist. What they want isn’t their own state, what they want is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. You only have to look at the Hamas charter to see that. Sympathy: NIL

Besides which, you’re hand-wringing over a minority. The war on terror has killed 1.5-4 million arabs and the US and Israeli government are firmly allies with the Saudi investors who funded the 9/11 attacks.

There are 150+ deadly Islamic jihad attacks worldwide every single month.
And it’s been going on for 1,400 years.
The first two war the USA fought was against North African jihadi states.
Here’s a sample of their blood thirst from the past few days:

Hi Aggrieved. I peruse some comments, but I’m not participating any longer. The smart and vibrant commenting community that came here with Glenn Greenwald is dead and gone, killed by neglect. The intellectual quality here has taken a steep nosedive for the last several years, and is now fit for Youtube.

Especially since the emboldened (by Trump’s win) racists, bigots and and reprobates have crawled out from under rocks to swarm in the place — and these are typically as stupid as the rocks from under which they’ve slithered — the atmosphere is insufferable. So, as most of the rest of the core group have done, I’m going elsewhere. I’m done.

We’re looking at building something else, a venue for solidarity, support, writing and networking for progressive action both against Trump and the rot in the Democratic Party. When there’s more developed news on that front either I or Doug will post contact info for getting there.

No mirror will ever be larger enough for you Mona. So, go ahead and gather around yourself only those of like mind. I can think of no fate that better suits the likes of you and Doug. But make it quick; this “Where’s Waldo” canned narrative is now becoming hackneyed. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Please feel free to once again lodge a complaint against me for this post with the hope that you can manipulate the moderator into silencing those who do not worship that grandiose opinion that you harbor for yourself. Godspeed.

speaking of solidarity, the world is a big tent. Why would you want to deprive others who would learn from you? So stylish, thoughtful, informed and accurate…. What’s the benefit of sequestering that for people who are already of the right mind?

Why would you want to deprive others who would learn from you? So stylish, thoughtful, informed and accurate…. What’s the benefit of sequestering that for people who are already of the right mind?

Yes, several have reached out to me saying my posts are important sources of good and illuminating information. But in a sea of filth (just look at the other comments in this sub-thread) that’s to be casting pearls before swine. Moreover, it has to be pleasurable discussing these things — the degraded quality of comments– the loss of huge numbers of vibrant conversationalists — has reduced this place to a sewer. I don’t like feeling the need mentally douche after spending time here.

Some of the bigots here are unstable, imagining all kinds of craziness about me and others, as well as the larger world. (See Karl’s reference above to his having had to be reined in by the moderators. But he can’t control himself and will go nuts again. Right-wing bigots of Karl’s viciously obsessed variety are numerous, and this site is now an environment attracting them.) It gets creepy to be continually immersed in such bilious madness.

So, off we go to a platform of support and solidarity, and to network in the fight against the moral rot these cretins represent and manifest.

Some of the bigots here are unstable, imagining all kinds of craziness about me and others, as well as the larger world. See Karl’s reference above to his having had to be reined in by the moderators.

And yet the moderator confirmed that it was you who was full of shit when you claimed that I was the source of a comment that was posted in my name which falsely asserted that I voted for Trump.

And in regard to being reined in: The moderator himself stated that he was only delaying my comments because I use a false Email address to post comments. Absent a mean to contact me, he ‘delayed my comments to get my attention.” Yet, here I am posting under the same account with no delay. What good is the truth when a lie will better serve your ends, hey Mona?

Thanks for providing me with this opportunity to once again reveal your true nature for all to see. Now you can go whining with your tail between your legs to your illusory Castalia where you, Dougie (Good Dougie, woof woof) and every other cut-and-paste intellectual can gaze admiringly into a reflective pool of your own making.

We share your frustration with our comment moderation platform. Unfortunately, we are extremely limited in our ability to monitor every comment.

Doug reached out to me directly, rather than through our moderator@theintercept.com address. I was out of town last week so we were unable to respond to Doug’s email until today. We deleted several of Karl’s harassing comments that Doug flagged and reached out to Karl directly to explain that he will be banned if he continues to harass members of our community. We also deleted the comments you highlighted that used discriminatory words.

We understand if you choose to no longer comment on our site. We hope that you will consider rejoining when we have a new commenting platform. Thank you for being part of our community, and best of luck.

Rubina Madan Fillion
Director of Audience Engagement
The Intercept

You had written a comment under your name and attributed it to me, among many other harassing and unhinged things you have done to me and Doug, which you’ve been told will cause you to be banned if you continue. For some time you were in pre-mod, as you admit having resorted to using different email addresses to post. (You likely also have another moniker in use, which I’ve identified to management.)

You are a demented and fixated, utter obsessive far-right racist and bigot (hence the threat to ban you). You are among the reasons this site is in the sewer, but now you can wallow in the filth with your like-minded fascists and hate-filled bigots.

Any who want to know why the useful, smart and well-informed people have stampeded out of here, should observe Karl, A Citizen and many others like them who now dominate here.

Oh Mona, I already posted the entire exchange between myself and Moderator Travis Mannon three days ago on the thread entitled “Brazil’s Two Largest Newspapers Forced by President and Judge to Delete Reporting; We’re Publishing It Here.” So, anyone who actually wants to know if your current claims are credible, they only need to visit that thread. As I said before, you are a chronic liar who uses one lie to cover up another.

I decline to continue engaging…

A dream come true for all. See ya. Don’t let the door hit you one the way out!

LOL here is little neat Pete attempting play with the adults once again. When you develop the basic capacity to provide a single cogent argument in support of any one of your brain dead assertions, maybe people will start giving weight to your opinions. Until then, be careful not to pee on your keyboard.

If action against “rot in the Democratic Party” means getting rid of the anti-rights people who push

* the military draft
* bans on information about how to make homemade bombs
* bans on nasty-looking guns
* bans on hate speech, trolling, supporting BDS, etc.
* passing a purely hypothetical constitutional amendment repealing the First Amendment under the justification that supposedly we will then be politically equal to people with a million times more money than us who we spend the rest of our time begging hopelessly for a job
* standing up for the rights of those who break the law to be rewarded for it with citizenship that is unavailable to those who follow it

Well, then I’m all for it. But if you want to keep those people and get rid of those who take a less creative approach toward the constitution instead, then I’ll pass.

A. Shitizen – you are called a racist and a bigot because that is what you are by definition–that’s not ‘attacking anyone who disagrees with you’. You hate all Muslims and will fully deny their humanity, or that they deserve the same rights as you or I. Yep–you’re a racist bigot. If it walks like a duck…quacks like a duck. Mona has far more intelligence than you. As I said before, go crawl back under your slimey rock from whence you came, and resume reading your Michelle Malkin book.

Mona has far more intelligence than you. Please, troll.
Moroon – you really have no idea whatsoever. If you did you wouldn’t keep attacking people calling them racist and bigots. Where in my writings do I openly [or covertly for that matter] say I hate all Muslims? Deny their humanity? … Because I feel all Muslims should be properly vetted before coming to this country? Where’s your humanity? Being a jealous Leftist who is afraid of white males?

All or nothing. Onward, eh? No room for negotiation? All or nothing, can’t recognize own racism/sexism/xenophobia(oh nooooes! Russians!!)/bigotry/navel gazing.

Mona “a venue for solidarity, support, writing and networking for progressive action both against Trump and the rot in the Democratic Party.”

Yup. Start with the ‘safe space’ mindset. Your own.

It is this that has destroyed the Democratic party of America. Glenn said as much in that interview on Fox news the other day.

Safe space is just another way of saying indoctrination. And we know how well that worked in Russia 1917, Germany 1923, China 1959/Israel today (gee you think Mona would pony up and note the similarity on that one).

I think this is likely an admission that TI was a one hit wonder-but wow! What a wonder it was when it revealed to ALL people something that we can all find common ground to unite over- like mass surveillance of ALL of us.

Then- to exploit that for political cause? Ooops! The Democrats virtually re-wrote the Bush playbook, and turned surveillance petty, personal, and mean.

Meh. Happy graduation day-Mona has basically admitted that TI is now MSM. All hope is lost.

Sigh. You seem to favour purity. I fully agree with Glenn Greenwald in that one should be allowed to say what one thinks. That said, one should also be prepared to defend what one says. This in no way allows spam or Milo-style mass attacks. Those should be criminal.

There is still a sickening proliferation of censorship/moderation. It should be a CRIME, not encouraged.

There is still a sickening proliferation of censorship/moderation. It should be a CRIME, not encouraged.

Yet, here you are attacking me for taking Mona to task for attempting to manipulate Intercept moderators into censoring the comments of others for the very behaviors that she is chronically known for. Doug Salzmann and Mona have routinely employed every dishonest and unethical tactic that they could conceivably muster for years against those with whom they disagree. Likewise, there a handful of other regular Greenwald contributors who rush to their aid in an attempt to shout down or verbally assault (sound familiar) all legitimate dissenting opinion. On third party websites -where Mona cannot rely on Glenn Greenwald’s patronage – she has been banned for those same disreputable tactics. In spite of these known facts, I have never once gone running to a moderator for intervention. More specifically, I was cited for repeatedly asking Doug Salzmann if he was the same “Doug Salzmann” who betrayed his partners in the off-guardian website venture. As there has been an unbroken chain of comments by a single Doug Salzmann in various Greenwald venues for many years including the Guardian, it is hard to imagine that he is not the person of whom I queried. More directly, many contributors have been pursued by Mona from thread to thread with any number of questions simply because they have repeatedly proven that her cut-and-paste pablum is both unauthentic and meritless. Apparently, people like Rubina Madan Filliondo do not have a clue as to how manipulative narcissistic sociopaths like Mona can be. Either that or they indulge her out of concern for the fact that she was a former law partner of Glenn Greenwald and a longtime personal friend.

As I first laid eyes on this headline and sounded it out in my mind, I pictured slamming the Jeopardy buzzer and saying “Who is…… a Jew? It is a bit amusing, a bit sad the way that the article has to primly avoid raising an identity issue even as it blows the dog-whistles. Why don’t we let people feel freer to just level with us about an obvious tendency of the Israel-Palestine conflict – and related issues – to spill over into the U.S. and other countries?

The harassment Jews have experienced in places like Malmo gives a measure of justification to anti-Islamic attitudes, and explains the real reasons – more cultural than genuine fear of outright terrorism – why Americans are feeling more cautious about Islamic immigration. At the same time, most folks in the U.S. are rightfully going to put American interests first, and those interests may include taking a more principled approach, based on the presence or lack of democratic traditions in source countries and providing exceptions for persecuted religious minorities in those where they are weak.

The hard-core Jewish lobby, representing an American ally with a more similar world-view than any Muslim state, should be listened to carefully but not without reservation. Unlike Israel, America does not have theocratic distinctions between citizens. We don’t have a formal process for declaring or testing the religion of people who haven’t found a way to make it into a criminal issue. A policy of restricting immigration from Muslim countries can make sense, but we have to translate it into secular-democratic terms like “countries that prohibit apostasy or conversion” and “persons with a justified fear of persecution”. We can prefer immigrants familiar with democratic traditions and civil liberties! There will be a small fraction of Muslims who make it through such a properly bowdlerized filter; we’ll just have to put up with that. In a country where anybody is allowed by constitutional right to pick up a Koran and convert it is hopeless and pointless to try to exclude every single last Muslim from the immigrant pool.

Poor Wnt, the more he tries to promote the myth that the Israeli regime isn’t an Apartheid regime, and the same racist attitudes that kept the US comfortably aligned with the South African one is what keeps the US comfortably aligned with the Middle Eastern one, the more he echoes the defenders of the South African one.
And that’s something that should terrify the Israeli (and Saud) regime, because just as the American population that was comfortable being racist against Blacks aged out of controlling government policy (leading to civil rights movement for domestic Blacks, and the BDS movement for foreign Blacks) the American population that is comfortable being racist against Muslims/Arabs are in the process of aging out of controlling government policy, and that will have a similar international repercussion. And this time, there is a neutral court that can be called in to hold the criminals to account for their actions so they don’t have to be given a blanket pardon.

I didn’t say anything in there about Israel not being an apartheid regime. I said I don’t want to do things the way they do. That said, the U.S. is scarcely in a place to be throwing stones – just a few years ago the Pine Ridge reservation had a life expectancy equivalent to Bangladesh, and I doubt Obama even changed that. If we could sort out our Indian policies then we would be in a position to tell the Israelis what to do. Meanwhile… I know if I wanted to go to Israel, I’d be reasonably safe behind their wall, whatever its morality, whereas in many Muslim countries, I’d be a target simply for my nationality, and more reasons the more they knew about me. So why would we want to have equal immigration from both types of countries?

“Meanwhile… I know if I wanted to go to Israel, I’d be reasonably safe behind their wall, whatever its morality, whereas in many Muslim countries, I’d be a target simply for my nationality, and more reasons the more they knew about me.”

Well, no shit Sherlock! Israel gets lots of American money and sympathy, whilst Muslim countries get American bombs and Abu Ghrahibs. And you’re shocked, SHOCKED that folks hate you for what you represent???

And you seriously don’t see the difference in what happened with the Jews in the days of Hitler, where every one of those was doomed to torturous death by the Nazis, and Jews had never, as a group, done anything against the U.S., and Muslim immigrants from the countries in question, all of which have anti-American, Christianity, and democracies as basic tenets of their countries, all calling for the death of all of us , the “infidels”, and count as their heroes the scumbags who carried out the 911 atrocities? WTF are you thinking?

The United States has lost its brash confidence that everyone in the world can be Americanized. Now, their identity under siege, they respond by building walls to protect themselves. The Rosenwald family, like everyone else, has merely changed with the times.

At one time, Americans were more tolerant. But since becoming an endangered species, at least in their own minds, they are creating a safe space and retreating into a private fantasy world. This is a natural development for any society in decline, and should be allowed to take its course.

Islamaphoba? Really Lee? Although you broad brush strokes are clearly intended to be inciteful and audacious, an overall lack of nuance and perspective betrays that effort with an equally subversive level of grotesqueness. In any discussion wherein the central focus is the mounting concerns arsing from the spread of Islamic culture, the merits of those concerns should be weighed. Yet, in grossly mischaracterizing Nina Rosenwald as an irrationally fearful bigot, there is an abject absence of that which informs her perspective. In short, the author of this article already presumes a level of affinity for his own bias that does not warrant a single reasoned argument as a pretext to engaging in character assassination of that which he irrationally fears.

Pogue Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor?
Private Joker: A peace symbol, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Where’d you get it?
Private Joker: I don’t remember, sir.
Pogue Colonel: What is that you’ve got written on your helmet?
Private Joker: “Born to Kill”, sir.
Pogue Colonel: You write “Born to Kill” on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Private Joker: No, sir.
Pogue Colonel: You’d better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you.
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Now answer my question or you’ll be standing tall before the man.
Private Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.
Pogue Colonel: The what?
Private Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?
Private Joker: Our side, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Don’t you love your country?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Son, all I’ve ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It’s a hardball world, son. We’ve gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.
Private Joker: Aye-aye, sir.

That’s our fault for breaking Iraq, creating the environment for ISIS and turning a blind eye to Assad’s and Israel’s war crimes and creating millions of refugees. At least Bush the dumber intervened and Ariel Sharon wasn’t forced to use nukes on Baghdad as he threatened if Bush didn’t invade.

I read on Wikipedia that at least some moderate Muslims have come to Rosenwald’s defense saying that her position is more nuanced if you know her well. That may be incorrect or outdated information, but I would have appreciated some elaboration in this article on if and how her position has changed over the years.

Can someone suggest a book that honestly (as unbiased as possible) explains the reasons for the emergence of this hatred towards Islam and Muslims? Makes me wonder, why there are so many organizations that actively promote this hatred.

Now I’m old enough to remember a previous campaign to portray a group of people as being ‘incompatible with Western values’, mysogynist, violent, etc. That group is going to seem strange to you, they were the Italians and Portugese.
Funnily enough, it was just during the period that Italian and Portugese Canadians felt strong enough as a group to start ‘demanding’ social accommodation (like pasta and sauces in stores that wasn’t canned spaghettios) which actually was happening via the usual economics pressure of demand, building (or trying to build) places of worship, to the point where they were strong enough as a group that politicians saw more benefits from courting their votes than courting the votes of the haters and the uninformed.
Now, like antiSemitism (the real thing, not the protests against the Apartheid regime) Islamophobia has deep cultural roots in ‘liberal Western values’ (going back to the times Jews fled Christian rule for Islamic countries, and liberal, educated Christian woman envied Muslim women for their rights, and freedom) so it won’t be the same ‘overnight’ change it was in the case of ‘antiMeditteranianism’ (the supposed incompatibility having been ascribed to the ‘Mediterranean’ culture) but probably more like the long, slippery, and still ongoing move towards ‘normalizing’ Blacks as a group in Canada and the US, but these efforts to stop Muslims becoming just another way of being American (Canadian) will fade.

This is not about Jew vs. Muslim , Muslim vs. Christian , Christian vs. Atheist .This is about Individual Wealth vs Humanity .
The Wealth ( aka Status Quo )will demand ORDER and will use their Law to maintain it . It’s called LAW & ORDER

Islam is incompatible with Western culture. PERIOD. The Gatestone Institute is doing great work, I wish them much success.

slightly [edited] for accuracy

[Statements like “] Islam is incompatible with Western culture [“ is an overt expression of my obvious bigotry]. PERIOD. The Gatestone Institute is [obviously scapegoating Muslims, so of course, racists think they are] doing great work, I wish them much success.

There is no “freedom of religion” under Islam, as there is in the West. As soon as Muslims are the majority, wherever they settle, Sharia law follows. But you wouldn’t know that because you’re fucking dense.

Glad to see I pissed you off, A. Shitizen. Hey!–guess what? You know who’s ‘incompatible with Western culture’? Racist right wing bigots like you. That’s because Western culture is a melting pot of races and ethnicities, just like the USA is. And nope–Muslims are not ‘incompatible with Western culture': the fact that there are millions of Muslims living in Western nations proves you wrong. Wow that was easy!

Time to go crawl back under your rock and resume where you left off with your Ann Coulter book, sub-human asswipe.

What absolute nonsense. Muslim or Islamic culture has been so intertwined with both Christian and Jewish cultures that each hold a history of shared cultural and technical development through the Moorish influence on Europe and the Byzantium Roman period. This also applies to the Persian Empire/Iran that has even provided modern western poetry.
Our earliest human relatives all came from Africa and since that time we have not developed into fully civilized societies and I cant help thinking how we seem to be going backwards in the last seventy years and becoming more tribal and stupid than ever. There is no exceptionalism in any race only in some individuals who rise above the stupid idea that we are the chosen ones when in fact it is the acceptance of different ideas that opens our minds to a greater future. Just at present it is our Judeo Christian heritage that is the most violent and dangerous principally because we think we are better than all others. American exceptionalism idea is a no less a brutish concept than the Nazi master race.

“Our earliest human relatives all came from Africa and since that time we have not developed into fully civilized societies and I cant help thinking how we seem to be going backwards in the last seventy years and becoming more tribal and stupid than ever.”

This “we’re all related, you fools!” argument, although falling largely on deaf ears, is what we have to keep repeating to these folks.

It is true that large human population movements can have a very destabilizing effect on regional politics and society and economics – but there’s no better example of that than the massive influx of European Jews into Israel and the conflict and strife that population movement created over the years.

While this is generally justified by claims such as “the Jews deserved a homeland after the Holocaust,” the Zionist movement dated back to dawn of the 20th century and was promoted by Chaim Weizmann during World War I as a means of supporting British imperialism; i.e. establishing a Jewish protectorate on the edge of the Ottoman Empire would give the British Empire a strong foothold in the eastern Mediterranean that could assist in blocking German imperial ambitions. Prior to this era, the indigenous Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities of the region coexisted in relative peace and tranquility; this was also the case across the North African Maghreb.

Consider this description of the region prior to the establishment of Israel, from a U.S. military manual from the North African war era c. 1943:

Outside the ramparts of the native towns the European sections have been built. These modern cities display such a riot of color, costumes and races as to be almost overwhelming. Common on the streets are Frenchmen clad in shorts and sport shirts with bare feet thrust into sandals; Arabs with their baggy pantaloons and short jackets topped by the traditional red fez; sleek Jews in flowing, striped kimonos wearing socks and oxford shoes. French, Jewish and Italian women wearing modern European dress; Arabian women completely draped in white, wearing the traditional veil with only eyes, hands and sandalled feet exposed. Children are everywhere.

That’s what the establishment of the state of Israel as a Jewish apartheid system destroyed.

Well, perhaps there is a better example of the destructive effects of uncontrolled immigration – the much larger influx of European colonialists into the Americas from 1500 onwards, carriers of diseases that devastated the population of the entire continent, who also enslaved and assaulted long-established local populations in their quest for “Manifest Destiny.” Crime and disease, indeed.

However, with massive global destabilization due to fossil fueled global warming on the horizon, the mass population flights of the future may very well dwarf anything seen in the past. How societies will deal with this without descending into genocidal conflict is an open question.

The 120th NCB was formed overseas in Casablanca, North Africa, Feb. 19, 1943. Personnel were gathered from the second sections of the 47th and 53rd NCB. In June 1943, headquarters were set up at Oran, with units operating at Arzero, Casablanca and Pt. Lyautey. Later, other units were stationed at Algiers, Span, Jura and other North African localities. In September, detachments were sent into Palermo, Sicily and Termini. The Battalion continued to operate in the Mediterranean area until June 1944, when it was sent back to the States and inactivated in August 1944.

They must have had a literary type assigned to them, here’s more:

North Africa today presents a picture of contrasts. Each successive civilization from the days of the Roman Empire to the present French rule has left its mark imprinted upon the architecture and customs of the country. A land inhabited by the people of half a dozen races living together in harmony, yet each retaining its own religion, each following its own traditions handed from generation to generation. Here one sees the modern machine of the present, working by the side of the primitive. Aeroplanes take off from modern airports with concrete runways and buildings, while close by, the native tills his field with plodding oxen and wooden plow. Automobiles travel down hard-surfaced highways passing camel caravans enroute to the native towns. Everywhere, mingling of the old and the new is apparent.

your contribution to the reality of history is invaluable (at least to myself).
1000 thanks.
for me, jerusalem is the canary in the coalmine of the civilisation of the planet. It the world cannot share just one city for all persons and owned by all, then the planet will not survive well.

Add me to the list of folks who appreciate your work, Photo. I purposely scroll the comments for yours, often before finishing reading the article itself. You always provide deeper insight and historical background to virtually every article on which you comment.

One of the problems we have is the reality of Islamic slums. There are several large Islamic slums outside Paris which function as reservoirs of Islamic discontent. Their inability to integrate into French society has created problems. Americans don’t want that here.

Most large migrations create slums. The migration wave after WWII was different because America emerged as the dominant economic power and its growing economy could accept and integrate newcomers. Also, they shared common European heritage and large numbers of Americans had gone overseas for the war effort.

The country has changed since then. We have gone from approx. 60 million people in the WWII era to over 300 million people today, a five fold increase in population.

“slum” indicates poverty. How about “ghetto”. What i see is the planet mutating into huge population ghettos as sanctuaries of division, as if whole countries were reforming or morphing. 60 million worked better.